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Payroll and employment-law practice

Organize client payroll inputs, contracts, contributions deadlines and employee files. A starting structure for separating the professional core of advice and signature from the collection, the registers and the reminders.

A typical Payroll and employment-law practice with 5 people covers 15 functions.

Up to 11 functions are eligible for Digital Employee support, under a personโ€™s supervision.

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Illustration: Payroll and employment-law practice
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Dedicated functions
3

Functions someone does full time.

Shared functions
8

Functions carried by someone who already carries others.

To cover
3

Functions nobody does today.

Outsourced
1

Functions entrusted to an external specialist.

How does it look at your place?

Start with the model and change only what differs in your company. One person can cover several functions.

Include yourself. Functions do not mean new people to hire.

5 people
Dedicated functions
3
Shared functions
8
To cover
3
Outsourced
1

This is an initial estimate, not your companyโ€™s org chart. Youโ€™ll review it in your Scovai workspace.

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Who handles these functions in your company?

The โ€œIn the modelโ€ line describes the example, not your company. If you leave an answer unchanged, we keep that reference.

  1. In the model: One dedicated person

  2. In the model: One dedicated person

    DE support may be suitable

  3. In the model: One dedicated person

  4. In the model: Handled by the owner

  5. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

  6. In the model: Handled by the owner

    DE support may be suitable

9 more functions in the model
  1. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

  2. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

  3. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

  4. In the model: Handled by the owner

    DE support may be suitable

  5. In the model: Still to be covered

    DE support may be suitable

  6. In the model: Still to be covered

    DE support may be suitable

  7. In the model: Handled by the owner

    DE support may be suitable

  8. In the model: Still to be covered

    DE support may be suitable

  9. In the model: Outsourced

What a typical Payroll and employment-law practice has to cover

Explore the modelโ€™s functions, area by area. Coverage is a starting point; suggested Digital Employees need to be reviewed before activation.

Practice management

(5)

Principal labour consultant and head of the practice

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

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Junior consultant and daily contact of the smaller clients

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

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Labour advisory, inspections and disputes

Coverage in the model: Handled by the owner

The principal prepares inspections and conciliations in the evening because the days go to the calls and the signatures.

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

Define this role with Mike

Client regulatory updates and newsletter

Coverage in the model: Still to be covered

A newsletter on labour-law changes goes out when someone has time, and clients call to ask what changed.

Digital Employee ยท Marketing Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Hiring of payroll clerks and juniors

Coverage in the model: Still to be covered

A clerk's notice starts a search through colleagues and training schools, and the first candidates arrive after two people have done the month-end.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Front office and client service

(3)

Front desk, phone and client scheduling

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

One desk answers the phone of eighty client companies, keeps the principal's agenda and files the paper, so the phone rings out in the third week.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Client payroll inputs collection and reminders

Coverage in the model: Handled by the owner

Hours, absences and sick notes arrive by email, chat and photo, and a clerk spends the second week asking the same twenty clients for the same sheet.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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New client onboarding and engagement letters

Coverage in the model: Still to be covered

A new client is taken on with a phone call and a letter copied from the last one, and the first run is late because half the data is missing.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Payroll desk

(2)

Payroll processing and payslip runs

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

Two clerks close eighty client runs a month from inputs that arrive by email, chat and photo, so the third week is a race against the sixteenth.

Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Hires, terminations, contracts and mandatory communications

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

A hire arrives the evening before it starts, and the mandatory communication to the employment centre is sent at eleven at night by the principal.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Compliance and administration

(5)

Contributions calendar, filings and yearly certifications register

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

The contributions calendar and the yearly filings live in the software and in the principal's head, and a missed date is a penalty the practice pays.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Client employee files and privacy registers

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

The employee files of eighty client companies live in folders and in the software, and the privacy paperwork is updated when an inspector announces a visit.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Practice billing per client and collections

Coverage in the model: Handled by the owner

Invoices to clients go out when the month is closed and are chased when the bank balance says so, usually by the principal on a Saturday.

Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Practice suppliers, software and portal delegations

Coverage in the model: Handled by the owner

Software licences, portal delegations and the office suppliers are renewed when they expire and someone notices, usually on a deadline day.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

External accountant of the practice

Coverage in the model: Outsourced

Receipts and invoices reach the practice's own accountant in batches, and the practice that closes six hundred runs is always late with its own books.

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

Define this role with Mike

The first week

What starts after the brief is complete, with every condition kept visible.

  1. A task from the role brief

    Once the brief is complete and the Digital Employee is active, Scovai creates a first task from the role definition. An incomplete brief never produces invented work.

  2. A useful daily summary

    At 07:30 local time, supervisors and the workspace owner receive yesterday's work, open approvals, incidents, silence and spend. Empty days send no email, except for the quiet Monday check-in.

  3. Phone updates by choice

    The push invitation appears only after the first approval request. If you do not enable it, the operational picture remains available in the email summary.

From a reference model to your structure

1

Start from the model

Sign up on the free AGENTIC plan with this blueprint preloaded. You confirm the profile and the functions; nothing is written until you apply.

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2

Assign the hats

Say who handles each function. See the overall coverage estimate update and where a Digital Employee is suggested. Youโ€™ll review the structure in your Scovai workspace.

See how Digital Employees work
3

Choose where to add digital support

Explore Digital Employees by role and competence. Assign one only after choosing a seat, a clear brief and a human supervisor.

Explore Digital Employees

Straight answers

Who supervises the digital employees?

Each digital employee sits in a seat under a named person in the practice, usually the principal consultant or the senior payroll clerk. It covers an administrative or support function under that person's supervision, reports what it did, and stops whenever the supervisor says so. No digital employee sits in the professional core seat.

What does a digital employee never decide?

Anything the principal signs: a payslip, a contract clause, an advice on a dismissal or an incentive, a mandatory communication to the authorities, and whatever its brief marks as reserved: fees and engagement terms, deadlines promised to a client, anything sent to an inspector, a union or a court. On those it prepares the work and asks before acting; the first message to any outside recipient is always a draft.

Where does it take its data from?

From the payroll software, the client portals of the social security and tax authorities, the practice mailbox and the shared folders you connect to its seat, and from what your clerks tell it. It reads nothing you have not connected, contacts nobody you have not listed and handles personal data only within the systems you already use.

What does it cost?

Each digital employee is billed monthly by price band, shown in your currency on the marketplace before you claim a seat. You claim one seat at a time and can release it; there is no bundle price.